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I’m a quite happy Synology user. For the past years I’ve been using it mostly to backup my things, so I didn’t pay much of an attention to the fact, that the Photo Station software would get slower and slower up to the point when I would end up with “Failed to load data” message each time I would access it.

Some articles suggested that you have to drop and re-create the media indexing database to fix it. However, this won’t help you in the long run. Your Photo Station 6 database will become bloated once again after a while.

The reason, why Photo Station 6 gets slower and slower, is the fact that Synology, for any crazy reason disabled the PostgreSQL AutoVacuum functionality. Vacuuming is suppose to keep your database in a good state

How to fix that once and for all? You need to enable the PostgreSQL AUTOVACUUM and for an immediate effect, you should also run the vacuuming manually.

SSH into your server and then:

sudo su
cd /volume1/@database/pgsql
vim postgresql.conf

Within the postgresql.conf file replace (or add if they don’t not exist) following settings:

wal_buffers =128MB
autovacuum = on
checkpoint_segments = 10

save, exit the file and reboot.

If you want to run vacuuming manually, log in into the PostgreSQL console:

When you’ll setup your Gitlab instance using Synology DMS 6.0 UI, despite the fact that you’ve provided all the Gmail credentials, you will notice that it does not send any emails. You probably end up with a message similar to this one when:

EOFError: end of file reached

It may sound a bit enigmatic, but in general it means that your Gmail setup is wrong. Unfortunately you cannot change it using the UI. Fixing this requires a SSH connection.

Warning: I’m not responsible for any damages or injury, including but not limited to special or consequential damages, that result from your use of this instruction.

Stop your Gitlab using DMS UI

First, you need to stop your Gitlab instance via DMS UI:

So to Package Manager

Select Gitlab

Select “Actions”

Click on the “Stop” button

Change your synology_gitlab.config via SSH

This one is a bit harder. Here are the th ings you need to know before you start:

How to log in via SSH into admin account

How to install (if you don’t have) vim (or any other console text editor)